Notes on Contributors

C. Fred Alford is Professor of Government at the University of Maryland, College Park. A book of his on Levinas and Psychoanalysis will be published in 2002 by Wesleyan University Press and Continuum Books.

Christopher Breu is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses on twentieth-century American literature, popular culture, and critical and cultural theory. He has published on subjects as diverse as Maryse Conde's Moi, Tituba, Sorcière … Noire de Salem, and contemporary techno and indie rock. He is currently completing work on a book manuscript entitled “Hard-Boiled Masculinities: Fantasizing Gender in American Literature and Popular Culture, 1920-1945.”

Cynthia Burack is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory (New York University Press) and articles in feminist theory and political psychology.

Colin Campbell is currently pursuing a Ph. D. in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto. This paper is a re-visitation of his M.A. Thesis, “Imagining the Possible: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse,” completed under the auspices of the programme in Contemporary Social and Political Thought at the University of Victoria.

Michael F. Davis is Assistant Professor of English at Le Moyne college in Syracuse, New York. He completed his dissertation, “Mona Lisa's Modernity: Queer Theories through Pater and Freud,” at the University of Virginia in 1997 and is currently completing a book on Virginia Woolf entitled Dating Mrs. Dalloway: Self-Reflexion, Suicide, and the Ends of Fiction.

Dr. Frédéric Declercq is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and psychoanalysis at the State University of Ghent (Belgium) and a practicing psychoanalyst. He has published a book and several articles on Lacan's category of the Real with respect to the discussion of trau